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Assessing the Validity of Abnormal Repetitive Behaviours as Indicators of Poor Animal Welfare: A Narrative Review

2025-12-24

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Abnormal repetitive behaviours ('ARBs') in captive animals are a heterogeneous group of troubling activities (e.g. stereotypic pacing by Carnivora; feather-plucking by poultry). To assess and improve their construct validity as welfare indicators, we reviewed their responsiveness to mood-improving drugs; links with imprisonment, stress and self-reported poor well-being in humans; and in animals, the impact of welf...

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Literature Corpus work: 73e8881a-5114-54a6-91fa-d7a7a96e2387
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202512.2180.v1

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